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Boeing Blended Wing Body Aircraft

Posted by michael on from the meet-george-jetson dept.

pcolley writes "I love it when Science Fiction becomes reality. Boeing is nearly finished designing their super efficient Blended Wing Body (BWB) airplane. It looks like the BatJet." Boeing is considering both civilian and military roles.

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  1. The engineers would by dfenstrate · · Score: 5, Funny

    And -- would the average person fly in a radically new, untested airframe?

    Boeing has a solid method of both ensuring an plane's good design and ensuring the public that their plane is airworthy.

    The send the design engineers out with pretty much all the first flights. As a budding mechanical engineer, that's damn good motivation for me to make sure my plane is designed well.

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